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General ZA2022SIN357A101 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2024 As life expectancy rises across Africa, the emergence of non-communicable diseases including breast cancer as a cause of mortality has dramatically increased. Access to early, precise diagnosis of breast cancer is currently absent within the South African public health system, disproportionately affecting black women in poor and/or rural households. Access to radiography or biopsies is limited to tertiary hospitals which are concentrated in larger urban centres burdening poor/rural patients with long-distance travel costs and time delays. Hence…
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General ET2023SIN386A103 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2025 Mekelle University (Ethiopia) is one of the main partners from the South, which has established strong collaboration with Flemish Universities (HEI) (e.g. Ghent University). The more than two decades of collaboration have registered impressive success stories in academics (research and teaching), development and capacity building with a long-term impact on the overall livelihoods of the people. These success stories were drastically demolished and disrupted by the two-years-long Tigray war. The war in Tigray has damaged the human, institutional…
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General ET2023SIN382A102 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2025 Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is among the deadliest neglected tropical diseases worldwide affecting the most impoverished populations. East-African countries accounted for 57% of the VL global burden in 2020. The WHO recently launched a VL elimination plan for East-Africa, with early detection and treatment of VL cases as the backbone to reduce transmission and VL burden. However, due to gaps in diagnostics and inaccessible healthcare the official numbers are just the tip of the iceberg and many patients remain untreated. Molecular diagnostics…
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General UG2019TEA493A103 01/01/2019 - 31/08/2024 Uganda has a very young population and its sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes - including teenage pregnancies and HIV prevalence - remain among the poorest worldwide. While the role of parents in SRH education is key, they lack communication skills amidst cultural norms which do not provide for preventive messages regarding risky sexual behaviours. The aim of the project is to improve young adolescents’ access to comprehensive SRH information by improving communication capabilities of parents/guardians in rural areas. Considering the…
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General CU2019TEA482A102 01/01/2019 - 31/08/2024 Milk production in Cuba struggles to meet the demand of milk in the daily ration of many Cubans. Several factors resulted in a decrease of milk producing potential in dairy cattle herds. The lack of efficient (re)production strategies decreased the number of dairy cows that attain reasonable milk production levels. For this reason, sustainable measures are urgently required to improve the efficiency of dairy cattle management. The general objective of this project is to increase the milk production potential and as a consequence food security…
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General RW2022SIN353A103 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2024 Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological disorders affecting 70 million people worldwide of whom 85% live in low- and middle-income countries. The epilepsy treatment gap, which includes the diagnosis gap, amounts to 80% in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The prevalence in Rwanda is amongst the highest of SSA, estimated at 4.9%, with an epilepsy treatment gap of 91.5% due to diagnostic and therapeutic limitations in rural areas. However, causes underlying the high prevalence in Rwanda have never thoroughly been identified. In Africa,…
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General RW2022TEA523A101 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education in general, and for girls in particular, is prominent in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Empirical research shows that gender imbalances in attitudes towards STEM tend to be smaller in Sub-Sahara Africa, compared to the West; a trend confirmed in our 2021 Global Minds Multistakeholder research project implemented in Kayonza, Rwanda. Our data and stakeholder consultation showed that this encouraging finding had to be qualified at the level of gendered self-confidence gaps,…
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General ET2022SIN344A103 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2024 The project primary aims are to tackle neonatal and maternal mortality and morbidity and to improve quality of postgraduate education on women’s health through advanced research. These goals respond to the sustainable development goals (SDG) 3.2 (reducing under-5 years mortality), SDG 3.8 (universal access to effective treatment) and SDG 4 (quality education). Although Ethiopia has made strides in reducing maternal and childhood mortality, the mortality rates are still unacceptably high. An estimate in 2015 indicated that maternal mortality in…
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General VN2022SIN364A103 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2024 In this project, it will be evaluated to which extent the susceptible population groups in Vietnam are exposed to indoor air pollutants. With the aim to create awareness among the population of the associated health risks and to enable access to advanced analytical methods to measure and analyse these pollutants in the air.
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General CD2022TEA505A101 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027 Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) describes the brain damage after oxygen deprivation before, during or after birth (perinatal asphyxia). It is the cause of nearly 600.000 deaths worldwide every year, of which 99% occur in low- and middle-income countries (LIMC). Additionally it leads to a substantial burden of disease due to long-term neurological disability in survivors. Although therapeutic cooling in HIE showed a significant decrease in handicap in high-income countries, studies in LIMC did not show positive results and even a higher…